Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.
African countries should maintain strong surveillance, case finding and testing among other control measures to halt COVID-19, as they begin to ease lockdowns and open their economies, the World Health Organization Africa Department said on Thursday.